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Militants and soldiers die in al-Shabab attack in Kenya

The Kenyan army says it has killed 11 members of the Islamist group al-Shabab during a militant attack on a military camp. It said two soldiers also died in the fighting.

The Kenyan military said on Sunday the deaths occurred during a dawn attack by the militant Islamist group on a military camp at Buare in the coastal region of Lamu, close to Somalia, where al-Shabab is based.

Military spokesman Colonel David Obonyo said that two unidentified Caucasian men were among the militants killed in the fighting.

The militant group recruits foreign fighters both from neigboring countries and abroad, including from the USA and Britain.

Al-Shabab has denied losing 11 fighters, and put the number of army fatalities at three. The group also claimed to have destroyed a military vehicle carrying Kenyan soldiers on Sunday in a separate attack near the border village of Haluqa in the county of Garissa.